Bott periodicity in the Hit Problem

DOI10.1017/S0305004114000085zbMATH Open1293.55012arXiv1406.7734MaRDI QIDQ5415166FDOQ5415166

Authors: Shaun V. Ault 

Publication date: 12 May 2014

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this short note, we use Robert Bruner's $mathcalA(1)$-resolution of $P=mathbb{F}_2[t]$ to shed light on the Hit Problem. In particular, the reduced syzygies $P_n$ of $P$ occur as direct summands of $widetilde{P}^{otimesn}$, where $widetildeP$ is the augmentation ideal of the map $Pomathbb{F}_2$. The complement of $P_n$ in $widetilde{P}^{otimesn}$ is free, and the modules $P_n$ exhibit a type of "Bott Periodicity" of period $4$: $P_{n+4}=Sigm{a}^8{P}_n$. These facts taken together allow one to analyze the module of indecomposables in $widetilde{P}^{otimesn}$, that is, to say something about the "$mathcalA(1)$-hit Problem." Our study is essentially in two parts: First, we expound on the approach to the Hit Problem begun by William Singer, in which we compare images of Steenrod Squares to certain kernels of Squares. Using this approach, the author discovered a nontrivial element in bidegree $(5,9)$ that is neither $mathcalA(1)$-hit nor in $mathrmkerS{q}^1+mathrmkerS{q}^3$. Such an element is extremely rare, but Bruner's result shows clearly why these elements exist and detects them in full generality. Second, we describe the graded $mathbb{F}_2$-space of $mathcalA(1)$-hit elements of $widetilde{P}^{otimesn}$ by determining its Hilbert series.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7734

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zbMATH Keywords

Steenrod algebraHit-ProblemPolynomial algebra.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Steenrod algebra (55S10) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Cites Work

• Relations among the kernels and images of Steenrod squares acting on right \(\mathcal A\)-modules
• On the homology of elementary Abelian groups as modules over the Steenrod algebra

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• The hit problem for \(H^{*}(BU(2); \mathbb F_p)\)
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• On the homology of elementary Abelian groups as modules over the Steenrod algebra
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